Uplink03/solarcrusaders

solarcrusaders

install notes

install and run redis-server

You will need to have a redis instance running locally.

Install on OSX

Install on Windows Subsystem for Linux:

apt-get install redis-server

initialize required packages

You will need to install nodejs, bower, and grunt.

Install nodejs on OSX:

brew install node

Install nodejs on Windows Subsystem for Linux:

// you can use node --version 4.x or 6.x
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_6.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

Install bower and grunt:

sudo npm install -g bower
sudo npm install -g grunt-cli

Install solarcrusaders required packages

npm install
bower install

update your hosts file

// Linux/OSX: /etc/hosts
// Windows 10: C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts

#
# Hosts file
#
127.0.0.1   localhost
127.0.0.1   localhost.dev
127.0.0.1   www.localhost.dev
127.0.0.1   play.localhost.dev

update config.json

{
  "silent": false,
  "daemon": false,
  "production": false,
  "url": "http://localhost.dev:4567",
  "secret": "secret",
  "database": "redis",
  "redis": {
    "host": "127.0.0.1",
    "port": "6379",
    "password": "",
    "database": "0",
    "options": {}
  }
}

create log files

// make sure you're in the
// root solarcrusaders directory
mkdir ./logs
touch ./logs/loader.log
touch ./logs/server.log

Run the game server in Windows Subsystem for Linux

It is recommended that you clone solarcrusaders into /mnt/c/Users/name/Documents/ if you'd like to use Sublime or Windows IDE to edit project src files.

start redis

sudo service redis-server start

build core and solar client javascript

Then run:

grunt build:core
grunt build:solar

Every time you make changes to ./solarcrusaders/src/* you will need to re-run:

grunt build:solar

run in development mode

node app.js

Run the game server in OSX or Linux

start redis-server

redis-server

run in development mode

grunt

run in production mode

./solarcrusaders start

See if your local game server is running

Open a web browser and navigate to http://play.localhost.dev:4567/